The Center for Social Media at American University has just put out a very nice report titled "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video". While there have been many excellent reports and tutorials on fair use rights for text and to a lesser extent addressing image materials, flim and video have been particularly complex and confusing. This report seems particularly timely given the growing interest in student videos as a mode of expression.

There are also some  interesting videos that support and illustrate the report's conclusions.

The project is at:

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/recut_reframe_recycle


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI